The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS.


1t is leaning against lamp post
waiting for Offices to come along that is
keeping so many young men poor
NJ o. Picayune.
"A Cincinnati gentleman has lost
fifty umbrellas in eighteen months by
lending them to female pedestrians who
were caught ont in the rain. Only one
umbrella was ever returned. Il incin-
ssati Times.
OF flve people who on their dying
beds last year confessed to great crimes,
only one told the truth. In the other
cases it was shown that the "confes-
sors" could not possibly have had any,
thing to do with the crimes Troy
Times.
Miss Cinda Williams, of Dexter,
Mo-, was thrown from horse and her
head struck fence rail, which scalped
herthoroughly. The scalp was replaced
and sewed in position, and Miss Will
Jams has already fully recovered.
Some time ago Wheaton Huntley
moved from the East with three mar
riageable daughters and located by
Henry Burchard, in Mercer County. D.
T., who had three manageable boys,
and the three brothers have married the
three sisters.
Kansas in itself is a vast empire.
Few people know that within its bound
aries can be placed the States of Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Della
ware and Maryland, and still there
would be very considerable area left.
IL was riding on one of the old
stage coaches running to the Black
Hills, and one of my fellow passengers
was an old Englishman. We had
reached dell in the road when one of
the leaders of our four-in-hand team
became restless. The driver swung his
whip out, and, as the horse felt the
crack and steadied down the driver ex-
claimed: There. blank, blank you; take
thatr Immediately the voice re-
sounded in echo from the hill be-
yond: There, blank, blank you, take
thatr The Englishman looked up
quietly and said to me: If he had said
God bless you, instead of the language
he used, his God bless you would as
certainly have come back to him from
yonder HILL"
The only curiosities brought to
light by the dredge since the work was
begun on the Cape Cod canal have
been a strange collection of about fifty
figures carved in oak, which are sup
posed to have remained under the sand
and water of the marsh for the past
century or more. The story goes that
the artist who executed them was a
poor, demented fellow by the name of
Nye, whose fondness for a Sandwich
belle by the name Of Hester Upper, led
him to seek employment for his leisure
time by carving her efiigy and various
cabalistic signs upon pieces of oak and
hiding them in the bitches of water
which furrowed the marsh.
That electric we'll or pit in Talia
ferro County, Georgia, still continues to
cure severe cases of chronic rheuma-
tism. The well is located on the side of
small mountain four miles from the
Sharon station, on the Georgia railroad.
1t was dug last summer, in a search for |
gold. 1t is six or eight feet square and
about fourteen feet deep, the bottom
being covered over with loose boards |
and a rude carpet. Four chairs are at
the bottom for persons to sit in. The
owner has built small house over the
well. There is nothing like shock,
only a tingling sensation like that caused
by very weak current from galvanic
battery. The sensation is felt whether
one touches the walls or not.-M 7.
Sun.